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Archaeologist (Lab Director, closes Aug. 11) and Historic Preservation Specialist II (Archaeological Reviewer, closes Aug. 4) | Kansas Historical Society

Visiting Senior Scientific Specialist, Archaeology (Elgin, Illinois) | Illinois State Archaeological Survey (More info and Apply Online by 6 pm August 7, 2025)

 Visiting Senior Scientific Specialist, Archaeology | Illinois State Archaeological Survey (More info and Apply Online)

☛ Visiting Senior Scientific Specialist, Geospatial Science | Illinois State Archaeological Survey (More info and Apply Online)

☛ Director of Education and Archaeologist | Center for American Archeology, Kampsville, IL

☛ Historic Properties Researcher (Full Time) | Museum Archaeology Program, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, WI  (More info and Apply Online)

 

News & Updates

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September is the 30th anniversary of Indiana Archaeology Month. View information about this year's theme and poster. Send email to request your own

The Illinois State Archaeological Survey, a division of the Prairie Research Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, proudly announces the release of their latest publication: Studies in Archaeology No. 07, Archaeology of Illinois: The Deep History of the Prairie State

☛ Illinois Archaeological Survey 2025 Grant Opportunities

William (“Bill”) L. Mangold Obituary

☛ Death of Indiana's second State Archaeologist

☛ Read James (Jim) Skibo's obituary 

☛ Two new rules on NAGPRA from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (https://cam.illinois.edu/policies/rp-14/ and https://nagpra.illinois.edu/procedures/)

New Videos on Archaeology of Personhood and Soul Concepts of Pre- and Post-contact Indians of the Eastern Woodlands (direct link to videos, full notice with symposium details)

 Online guide to “Talking About Race,” designed by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (webpage)

☛ Check out the book series Midwest Archaeological Perspectives

Recent Theses & Dissertations

From “Intricate, Tortuous, and Difficult Channel” to “Western Venice:” The Transformation of the St. Clair Maritime Landscape from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries

Interpreting the Buffalo Lake Locality: Analysis of Projectile Point and Ceramic Assemblages Recovered from Kratz Creek (47MQ39), Neale (47MQ49), and McClaughry (47MQ42) Sites

Temporal Use of Koster Mounds: Functional Morphology, Mortuary Practices, and Paleopathology in the Prehistoric Lower Illinois River Valley

An Examination of Flintlock Components at Fort St. Joseph (20BE23), Niles, Michigan

Community Identity, Culinary Traditions and Foodways in the Western Great Lakes

A Multiproxy Analysis of Culinary, Technological, and Environmental Interactions in the Northern Great Lakes Region

"This is the Way Things are Run": Land Use on the Grand Portage Reservation During Office of Indian Affairs Occupation, 1854-1930

Stone Tools and Agricultural Communities: Economic, Microwear, and Residue Analyses of Wisconsin Oneota Lithic Assemblages